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Garcia-Cely, C.; Marsili, L.; Ringwald, A.; Spector, A.D. |
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Polarimetric searches for axion dark matter and high-frequency gravitational waves using optical cavities |
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2025 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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112 |
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2 |
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023031 - 20pp |
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We revisit birefringence effects associated with the evolution of the polarization of light as it propagates through axion dark matter or the background of a passing gravitational wave (GW). We demonstrate that this can be described by a unified formalism, highlighting a synergy between searches for axions and high-frequency GWs. We show that by exploiting this framework, the optical cavities used by the ALPS II experiment can potentially probe axion masses in the range ma similar to 10-9-10-6 eV, offering competitive sensitivity with existing laboratory and astrophysical searches. Also building on this approach, we propose using these optical cavities to search for high-frequency GWs by measuring changes in the polarization of their circulating laser fields. This makes it a promising method for exploring, in the near future, GWs with frequencies above 100 MHz and strain sensitivities on the order of 10-14 Hz-1/2. Such sensitivity allows the exploration of currently unconstrained parameter space, complementing other high-frequency GW experiments. This work contributes to the growing community investigating novel approaches for high-frequency GW detection. |
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[Garcia-Cely, Camilo; Marsili, Luca] CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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WOS:001538664400012 |
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yes |
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6780 |
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